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received it or as it may have been amended. Upon con-
firmation of the report they shall declare established an
organization, to be known as the................................................... '.. Public

Drainage Association, composed of the owners of all the
lands assessed for the cost of the proposed drainage im-
provements, and empowered to carry out the plan of im-
provement as designated in the report of the drainage
viewers.

56. In case any report of the Board of Drainage View-
ers shall have been rejected by the Board of County Com-
missioners, then the expenses properly incurred in the
making of the survey and the report and in the publica-
tion of notices shall be paid by the Board of County Com-
missioners, who may then levy a tax in equal amounts
upon the property of the land-owners who signed the peti-
tion, the proceeds of such tax to be used to reimburse the
Board of County Commissioners for the said payment of
the said expenses.

57. The Board of Drainage Viewers shall, within one
month after the confirmation of their report, call together
the landowners assessed for the cost of the proposed im-
provements, hereinafter designated as the taxables, for the
purpose of electing a board of three managers.

They shall give ten days' previous notice of the meeting
by notices posted in four of the most public places in the
vicinity of the drainage project, stating the time, place
and object of the meeting.

At such meeting or any other meeting thereafter, each of
the taxables shall be entitled to the following votes accord-
ing to their respective assessments shown in the report of
the Board of Viewers as confirmed by the county commis-
sioners: For any assessment of fifteen dollars or less, one
vote; for any assessment or more than fifteen dollars and
not more than thirty-five dollars, two votes; for any assess-
ment of more than thirty-five dollars and not more than
sixty dollars, 3 votes; for any assessment of more than
sixty dollars and not more than one hundred dollars, 4
votes; for any assessment of more than one hundred dol-
lars, one additional vote for each fifty dollars or fractional
part thereof in excess of one hundred dollars; and any tax-
able so entitled may vote by proxy, authorized by writing,
under his hand.

Taxables who shall be entitled to cast a majority of all
the votes herein provided for shall be a quorum for the pur-
poses aforesaid; but if such taxables constituting a quo-
rum refuse or fail to meet upon the notice being given as
aforesaid, then the county commissioners, upon proof that